When Quest Aircraft Co. approached TechHelp for coaching on its manufacturing model it had a problem a lot of industries would envy: Demand for its product – the Kodiak backcountry airplane – had grown so rapidly it couldn’t keep up. ...
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Boise State gets funds for grade school tech ed 
Boise State University is hoping a grant from the U.S. Department of Education will help bolster Idaho students’ math and science abilities. The award comes at a time when educators, policy makers and business leaders around the country fret over ...
Read More »Energy woes out West 
Reports warn of impending shortages
Read More »Views differ on how to solve Idaho’s doctor shortage 
Experts in healthcare, education and government all agree: Idaho is facing a shortage of physicians, but there’s disagreement over what to do about it. “Idaho ranks last or near the bottom of per capita physician-to-patient ratio,” said Idaho Medical Association ...
Read More »New ISU research V.P. to focus on biomed, nuclear sciences 
The word around Idaho’s largest universities these days is “research.” With Boise State’s emergence as a “Metropolitan Research University of Distinction,” and the University of Idaho in Moscow reporting more than $80 million in competitive awards granted in FY 2006, ...
Read More »Press reports possible HP cuts in Oregon; no word on Boise 
As rumors spread that Hewlett-Packard plans a wave of job cuts in the wake of its printer division reorganization, the company is being characteristically tight-lipped. Spokesman Scott Stalla wouldn’t comment on the record about the possibility of job cuts or ...
Read More »Analysts say Micron looks good compared to its competition 
Analysts at Florida-based Raymond James & Associates weren’t too surprised by what they heard at Micron’s Summer Analyst Day on Aug. 5, but did say they were struck by how good the memory chip giant looks against its competitors, despite ...
Read More »Work begins on westbound I-84 sound-walls 
Crews with Meridian construction firm RSCI began work Aug. 1 installing the first of 1,500 panels used to build a concrete sound-wall on the westbound side of I-84. The panels, which range from 14 to 16 feet in height, weigh ...
Read More »Transit officials approve plan to serve union-contested route 
Valley Regional Transit officials opted not to eliminate service on a heavily-used bus route Monday, Aug. 4, instead approving a plan to extend an existing route to cover a one-mile stretch of Overland Road whose service by non-union drivers is ...
Read More »Effort to build Palo Alto fiber optic network may come from Boise 
One of the nation’s largest installers of services and systems for the home entertainment, communications, enterprise data and home integration industries may be connecting about 80,000 Palo Alto residents to a city-wide fiber optic network, and, if approved by the ...
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